Gondolas, originally uploaded by courtney johnston.
Oklahoma.
I realized something recently. I spent my first 20 years in Oklahoma and only took pictures of people and places that made me happy.
It never occurred to me to take pictures of the forsaken details that I would really miss, like the clouds. Those clouds make putting up with a [...]
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JR Hiroshima Station, originally uploaded by courtney johnston.
While in Japan I fell in love with the rubber stamps posted in the train stations and at important tourist sites and temples.
It became an obsession, finding the stamps or waiting for the hordes of school children to clear out so I could have a chance of stamping [...]
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Todai-ji Temple, originally uploaded by courtneyjohnston.
Todai-ji Temple, along with having sacred deer running free on the grounds, houses the world’s largest Vairocana Buddha (also Japan’s largest bronze Buddha) in the world’s largest wooden building.
And having been built in 752 AD it is also the oldest building I’ve ever visited. That kind of age is almost [...]
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